Deanrm's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Drag & drop a database connection in VS2005

  Hi: In VS2003 I could drag a database connection from the 'Server Explorer' page into a WinForm and it would create a SqlCponnection with the connection string pre configured. I have seen that this drag and drop ability is not supported in VS2005, what is the new equivalent TIA, MartinH. Hi Martin, Here's a explination from our old team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2004/08/27/221584.aspx There's lots of other info on this blo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Amazon-Movie collection issue with Web Service features????

  Please Help,   Just Getting my feet wet with VS2005...... I D/L the Amazon-Enabled movie Collection and every time I try to do a WEB SEARCH I get the following error.  There was a problem connecting to the Web service....... Additional Details: Online Web Service features are not implemented in this version of the starter kit..... Info -  Installed VS 2005 Pro... Full no MSDN Lib Help Please!!! -Marcelo ...Show All

• SQL Server Error on Upgrade Advisor

  Hi there, I tried to run Upgrade Advisor on two SQL 2000 servers, but the wizard keeps failing when it reaches 22% while analyzing the Database Engine. I downloaded the latest version, but still receive the same error... Error: " SQL BPA command line has encountered a problem and needs to close " Both servers are Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 with SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition SP4. Does anyone have an idea what I can ...Show All

• SQL Server AcquireConnection returns null

  Hi, we are facing some issue to get the underlying OledbConnection from the runtime ConnectionManager. below is the code sample that we are using IDtsConnectionService conService = (IDtsConnectionService)this.serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IDtsConnectionService)); if (conService == null) return; ArrayList conCollection = conService.GetConnectionsOfType("OLEDB"); for (int count = 0; count < conCollection.Co ...Show All

• Windows Forms Button with submenu

  Hi, Where can I get button with submenu like in toolbar Thank's Alexei Hi, I have the combobox with checkbox as part of my utilities library. It does what I want. Thank's Alexei ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to force visuals to get rendered?

  Hi, I’m programmatically creating shapes, like rectangles, and putting them in a canvas. I now want to be able to call functions like VisualTreeHelper.GetDrawing and VisualTreeHelper.GetContentBounds. The problem is that GetDrawing for my rectangle returns null, since it has not been rendered yet. I’m using VisualTreeHelper when I’m writing unit tests, so I somehow need to force WPF to render the visuals, without actually having the canvas rende ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drawing at design time

  Hi all, I was wondering if in Visual Studio it is possible to draw a line on a form like a seperator of information. I have used the GUI of Access IDE to draw shapes etc by dragging and dropping them onto forms but I cannot see t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Load dll on the spot

  Hi all, I created an application project and created a class project that contains a form. Now I want to load the class into the application and show the form and when the is closed I want to unload the dll How to to that my name of  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 Final Setup: ¿ How to avoid reboots and ... ?

  Hey guys ... I'm performing an administrative install of VisualStudio 2005 with a "/UNATTENDFILE" switch and i have all prerequisites preinstalled. Please, i need help with this three questions: 1. If i have all the prerequisites preinstalled, how to create an ini file (/CREATEUNATTEND) only for a VisualStudio and NOT for it and all the prerequisites 2. How to avoid the reboots in the installation process 3. How to install the MSD ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Running Instance + updating an Activity Property?

  Hi all, As the result of some logic (held in external rules) I'm trying to execute this logic which then indicates whether a transition to this next state is possible. e.g. s1 ---> s2, s1 -->s3, s1-->s4 This depends on rules as to which is allowed. The rules are something like "IF X THEN this.s1.PickMe=True" Problem & Question: The rules fire and all looks good, however the 'values' of PickMe dont seem to 'hold' t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development SIP Disappears after MessageBox.Show() -- Doesn't come back

  I have strange problem that SIP disappears after the messagebox.Show() is called and never shows up again. 1. I have 5 forms and One form is the startup form. I am displaying other 4 forms as ShowDialog when particular button is pressed in the MainForm. 2. Whenever I have informational message box MessageBox.Show() the SIP disappears. After I click OK in the message box, the SIP still doesn't comeback. If I remember where the SIP was befor ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using MSSQL server at run time for Crystal Reports

  Hi, i created a crystal report in a windows application. The applications gets its MSSQL server name dynamically (from the app.config file), however i am not able to do the same for the crystal reports. I get into this problem when i deploy my& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Add New Record Binding Source...

  Hi everybody,     I new with binding source control and binding navigator control of .Net Framework 2.0. I having problem with adding new record. I have binding source control and bindingnavigator control, it displays the data ok and data navigation between records is ok. But when I try to add data using "+" icon on binding navigator control, it causes error on data type...What is the problem and how can I make it work &nb ...Show All

• Visual C# how to clear socket queue

  Hi How can i clear a socket`s queue Thanks!! Then your queue will be empty. But if a accepting processes takes 10ms and every 5ms there will be a socket that connects then you queue will slowly become full. So i think you have to tune your exception process. ...Show All

• SQL Server drop table

  I upgraded my system from Sql2000 to sql2005. And now i have a problem. I have job wich runs every minute and perform the following select * into tabler_1 from ..... begin tran if exists(select * from sysobjects where xtype ='u' and name = 'tabler') drop table tabler exec sp_rename tabler_1, tabler commit And on client side i have IIS which runs asp pages which connect to database with ado connction using ODBC a ...Show All